Saturday, June 17, 2017

Pulled Pork – Suricata & Snort Rule Management

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Pulled Pork – Suricata & Snort Rule Management
Pulled Pork is a PERL based tool for Suricata and Snort rule management – it can determine your version of Snort and automatically download the latest rules for you.
Pulled Pork - Suricata & Snort Rule Management
The name was chosen because simply speaking, it Pulls the rules. Using a regular crontab you can keep your Snort or Suricata rules up to date automatically.

Features and Capabilities

Pulledpork 0.7.2 has been tested and works with Snort 2.9.8.3/Suricata 3.1.3 and the Snort Registered rules/ETOpen/ETPro rulesets.
  • Automated downloading, parsing, state modification and rule modification for all of your snort rulesets.
  • Checksum verification for all major rule downloads
  • Automatic generation of updated sid-msg.map file
  • Capability to include your local.rules in sid-msg.map file
  • Capability to pull rules tarballs from custom urls
  • Complete Shared Object support
  • Complete IP Reputation List support
  • Capability to download multiple disparate rulesets at once
  • Maintains accurate changelog
  • Capability to HUP processes after rules download and process
  • Aids in tuning of rulesets
  • Verbose output so that you know EXACTLY what is happening
  • Minimal Perl Module dependencies
  • Support for Suricata, and ETOpen/ETPro rulesets

Usage

You can download Pulled Pork here: